2 reviews of Hotel Petit Prince in Alpe d'Huez, France.
Reviewed 8 Apr 2015
I’d stayed in this hotel before and like it, it’s very clean and the rooms are well appointed. There’s a good chill out zone with a fireplace, pool table and sofas. It’s also very close to the chairlift you take to get onto the mountain (you can walk out the front door, ski down a little run for about 10 yards, take the chairlift up to the top and ski down to the resort in about 15 minutes).
The food was a bit hit and miss and to be fair it was the last time I stayed. When you’ve done a full day on the slopes you want a decent meal when you return at the end of the day.
From the hotel it takes about a 5 minute walk to get to the nearest bar and there’s also a little shop about 5 minutes away, so it’s a pretty good location.
Reviewed 14 May 2014
The hotel was very good, staff very friendly and food excellent! There wasn’t a massive choice but you could usually ask for more if you wanted it. The drinks were a bit expensive but I guess that’s not unusual for ski hotels.
I was staying here with my partner and a friend, I thought I’d booked 2 separate rooms but we ended up in a triple which wasn’t ideal... the staff were very helpful in finding us new rooms but we then ended up quite far away from each other. It wasn’t too bad and the rooms were good, the shower and bathrooms were quite nice and the room size wasn’t massive but they were OK to hang your kit up. You could leave your boots in a room as you came in. The hotel also had a ski hire shop which was useful as if something didnt fit you could get it changed really easily.
In order to get to the skiing, you could catch a bus from about 100 yards down the road which took you to the main ski area and stopped off in other places on the way if you needed the shops or anything. You can ski back which was fairly easy or also walk to the chairlift although the ski down from there was quite steep and narrow.